Figure Skating

Here's our sports bucket lists, not including Chicago venues or events, in no particular order. PLACES TO SEE Joe Louis Arena. It's old, it's run down, it smells of stale beer and it's a terrific place to watch a hockey game. History (and sometimes other unknown substances) ooze from the rafters, but it's a must-stop for hockey fans. Scheduled to be demolished in 2017, so what are you waiting for? Hinkle Fieldhouse. You might find yourself scanning the crowd for Jimmy Chitwood or hoping points are scored on a peach basket. The renovated Hinkle now has modern amenities to match its priceless sightlines. AT&T Stadium. Everything has to be bigger in Texas. So...

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Here's our sports bucket lists, not including Chicago venues or events, in no particular order.PLACES TO SEEJoe Louis Arena. It's old, it's run down, it smells of stale beer and it's a terrific place to watch a hockey game. History (and...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Milwaukee has been awarded Skate America in 2015, the first time the city will host a major international figure skating event.
The competition will take place Oct. 22-25, the first of six stops on the International Skating...

Sarah Haugh is set to graduate soon from Sandburg High School in Orland Park, and will be packing her bags to attend Miami University in Ohio next school year.
Once there, she hopes to study pre-med and definitely wants a career in the health field....

For as long as she can remember, Josilyn Dostal defined athletic achievement by how she performed on ice.
Dostal started figure skating when she was 7, following in her mom Kim Jepsen's footsteps.
School days for the Naperville Central junior are...

Highland Park native Jason Brown continued his climb up the world figure skating rankings as he finished fourth at last weekend's World Championships in Shanghai, China.
The 20-year-old won the U.S. Championships earlier this year and this was his...

Jason Brown delivered.
So did Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner.
The result was the United States kept the maximum three singles spots in both the men’s and women’s events at the World Figure Skating Championships, an accomplishment that takes on more...

Jason Brown must feel as if he has gone back to the future.
After Friday’s short program at the World Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai, Brown finds himself in almost exactly the same spot, give or take a few tenths of a point, as he was 13 months...

Russia’s Elizaveta Tukhtamysheva added an exclamation point to the year-long comeback that has resulted in one of the most remarkable seasons in figure skating history.
The U.S. women need to make a comeback in 36 hours to avoid already putting a blot on...

More than 300 young ice skaters from the Chicago area took lessons Friday from some very good teachers — U.S. Olympic champions.The Glenview Ice Center hosted the U.S. Figure Skating SkateFest, a free clinic open to the public at which skating champions...

Russia’s Elizaveta Tukhtamysheva is not standing pat after one of the most remarkable competitive seasons a figure skater ever has had.
After victories in the Grand Prix Final and European Championships, the 18-year-old from St. Petersburg is working...

The positive? The 16-year-old who began looking a year ago like the next leader of U.S. women’s figure skating was the surprise gold medalist at the Four Continents Championships in Seoul, South Korea.
The negative? The 19-year-old who had been the top...

This is the takeaway from the men’s competition at the Four Continents Championships that ended Saturday in Seoul, South Korea:
*Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten, who trains in Los Angeles, is a serious contender for the world title next month. While that should...

If Gracie Gold is to have a shot at a medal at next month’s World Championships, she almost certainly has to beat every skater who is not Russian.
Even that may not be good enough if all three Russian women skate cleanly.
But Gold cannot lose to a...

It wasn’t merely a botched attempt at his first quadruple jump in competition that consigned U.S. champion Jason Brown to ninth place after Thursday’s short program at the Four Continents Championships in Seoul.
Another poor execution of a triple axel...

Less than a month after being criticized for becoming national champion without trying a quadruple jump, figure skater Jason Brown of Highland Park is surprisingly planning to do one in Thursday’s short program at the Four Continents Championships in...

Synchronized skaters from the Northbrook Sports Center will travel to Providence, Rhode Island, hoping to bring home a trophy and a title: National Champions. The Teams Elite skaters on the Can-Can Team will compete in the 2015 U.S. Synchronized Skating...

At the highest level of men's figure skating, it's the quadruple jumps that carry the utmost importance.Only the world's best skaters are able to do them. The execution of those quadruple jumps can be the difference between medaling at high-profile senior...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hot rivalry between Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold in U.S. women's figure skating?
Not Saturday night.
Not with the peerless performance Wagner delivered to win her third national title in the last four years, one that gave her an...

Mind the gap.
The person in charge of that for U.S. Figure Skating is very aware it is growing larger and more dangerous for the sport's future in this country every year.
"I look at the numbers all the time," Mitch Moyer said.
The numbers in...